Product development

In our latest product release we introduced geospatial metadata functionality for Figshare repositories and portals.  This powerful new feature allows researchers to map and describe the geographical context of their research outputs. Understanding where research data originates can be crucial. From ecological studies tracking biodiversity to archaeological digs uncovering ancient sites, for a broad range…

The ever-evolving list of content types and workflows being handled by Figshare requires an ever-improving product and the April 2022 release brings the perfect example of this. We‚Äôre pleased to announce the launch of in-browser Batch Management for our Figshare for Institutions platform. Why was this built? The following conditions influenced our decision to build…

We’re extremely fortunate at Figshare to have millions of users from a variety of backgrounds engaging with our platform. That might be as simple as downloading a PDF from a preprint server or uploading your code all the way up to the administrators of repositories from some of the biggest technical universities in the world and even looking at research data…

In a year where we moved to full time home working for the entire Figshare dev team, that didn’t slow down the pace of development of the Figshare platform! We had another bumper year of changes, from exciting new features to ensuring regulatory and legal compliance. Read on to find out more. Accessibility   The…

Another major feature as part of the April 2020 production release is something we have been working on for a while and we’re very pleased to say is ready to go live. At Figshare, we’re very fortunate to be part of the Digital Science family. As such, it means we often get to work in close collaboration…

We’re proud to announce that from today customers of ‘Figshare for Institutions’ and ‘Figshare for Publishers’ will now be able to host content on a custom domain. Figshare portals have historically lived on a Figshare subdomain eg. university.figshare.com but now can be hosted anywhere eg. data.publisher.com, data.institution.edu, theworldscoolestdata.com. This is the next step in our…

We’re excited to announce an enhancement to an existing feature and extension of our integration with sister product Dimensions, which allows Figshare users to add funding information to their items and collections. Whilst there has been a funding field on the platform for many years it has been solely a free text field. With the…

This extensive feature allows a user to “follow” many different aspects across the platform. This might mean updates from a particular author or group. Here’s a full list of the things you can keep track of: Portal pageGroup pageCategory pageMain categorySubsetsSearch termFiltersAuthorsCollectionSearch & FiltersProjectsSearch & FiltersPortal page‍ When on any of these entities, you’ll see…